Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence [videorecording] / a Jeremy Thomas production ; a Nagisa Oshima film ; screenplay by Nagisa Oshima with Paul Mayersberg ; producer, Jeremy Thomas ; directed by Nagisa Oshima ; National Film Trustee Company ; made in association with Antares-Nova N.V., Recorded Picture Company, Oshima Productions, Asahi National Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and Broadbank Investments Limited.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)
Tom Conti, David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi [Kitano], Jack Thompson. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983. Based on the novel The seed and the sower by Sir Laurens Van der Post," which was based on the author's experiences as a WWII prisoner of war. Bonus features: original theatrical trailer; making-of featurette "The Oshima gang"; new video interviews; "Hasten slowly," a documentary on Laurens van der Post.
Contents:
disc one. The film -- disc two. The supplements.
Summary:
British army officer Jack Celliers is sentenced to a Japanese P.O.W. camp in Java where he engages in a private war of wills with the camp's commander and a belligerent sergeant. Despite the gruesome setting, Celliers and his fellow prisoner John Lawrence come to understand and respect the special Japanese code of honor.
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